Sully District Officer of the Year: PFC Roy Choe

Sully District Officer of the Year: PFC Roy Choe

Sully Police District - Officer Roy Choe has been selected as 2011
Officer of the Year by Citizens Advisory Committee of the Sully Police
District.

PFC Choe, originally from Korea, has been a member of the Fairfax County
Police Department since 2005. In a county where over 17 percent of the
residents are Asian, Choes’s exceptional language and interpretation
skills have proved to be an invaluable public safety asset.

In 2011, Choe assisted the Bureau of Criminal Investigation with two
homicide investigations, was assigned to the regional Human Trafficking
Task Force, and translated hundreds of pages of documents; often on short
notice. He assisted fellow officers with their cases and questions as
well. According to Choe, there are many cultural differences and nuances
that may need to be clarified in different enforcement situations. Choe
has helped the Korean community understand some of these by building
relationships with leadership and members of many churches, such as the
Korean Presbyterian Church in Centreville. With approximately 4,600
parishioners each week, Choe often helps explain situations such as crime
trends and the significance and importance of various traffic safety
laws.

PFC Choe’s skills are widely recognized throughout the community.
Officials from the Korean Embassy reached out to Choe when they needed
someone to address the Korean-American community on the financial fraud
victimization of Asians across the region.

According to Sully District commanders, Lieutenant John Trace and Captain
Purvis Dawson, PFC Choe has done an outstanding job of helping the FCPD
forge better relationships with the Korean-American community along with
provided outstanding law enforcement effort and support to his fellow
officers and community members.